Hi list,
I have an interesting problem. I have an app where the user can import
some rtf into a flash sprite, and maintain basic formatting. To do
that, I filename an rtf member to the chosen file, and then grab the
html to pass into Flash. This works just fine, but with one issue.
Upper ANSI chars get converted to HTML character entities in the
process.
So, I wrote a parser to swap those back. The only problem is, the check
is not case sensitive, so "á" is the same as "Á". I tried
to implement a list to do the check ([search_term] = [entity]), but the
problem with that is that I'm using a "while" loop, which will get
stuck on "Á". I can't simply move on to the next check, because
there might be an "Á" later on.
I suppose I could change the while loop to a for loop, but that would
be much less efficient. Or perhaps store the "old_text" below along
with it's character location in another list, replace the old text with
a bunch of bullets or something (I'd need to maintain the correct
length of the string), and then loop through the new list to do the
case sensitive check?
Any thoughts?
-- html_elements is a prop list of the form ["Á": "Á"]
repeat with i = 1 to html_elements.count
search_term = html_elements[i]
replace_term = html_elements.getPropAt(i)
repeat while offset(search_term, rawString) > 0
start_char = offset(search_term, rawString)
old_text =
rawString.char[start_char..start_char+search_term.char.count-1]
put replace_term into
rawString.char[start_char..start_char+search_term.char.count-1]
end repeat
end repeat
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email
[email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for
learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
